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This representation may be correct; however, it is illegible and somewhat confusing. Why is
that? The MIDI events contain very precise information about the start of a note and its
length and pitch, which has to be taken into account during playback. It may influence the
groove of a song if the notes are always slightly shorter than sixteenth notes. If this were to
be displayed correctly in the notation, the score would be unreadable as in the example
above. The MIDI events also do not contain information on whether the gap between two
notes is a real pause, its harmonic correlations (pitch), and the characteristics of the
dynamic sequences. This is why automatic processing of notation always differs from what
would be ideal. Samplitude includes a number of automatically and manually controllable
functions for making it easier to read the notation. The reworked version of the above score
excerpt illustration shows how big the difference can be.
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Note allocation in multiple systems
The term "System" refers to an individual line in a stave as well as all note lines of a score
(accolade). In cases where it is important to be able to differentiate a score and a note line
from one another, we use the term "System" for the score and "Note line" for a single
system.
Mostly, what is meant by "system" is the result of the context. For example, a two-handed
piano piece makes reference to the "upper" and "lower" systems.
Samplitude provides multiple systems, e.g. for piano notation or entire scores that are
comprised of up to 48 individual systems per track.
To assign notes manually to a system, click the "Assign to upper system" button
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to move the selected notes one line higher on a stave, and correspondingly on "Assign to
lower system"
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to move the selected notes a line lower. This results in the note being connected to the line
(independently of the MIDI channel or pitch). This manually set allocation can be undone by
clicking on